http://inthefield.blogs.cnn.com/2008/03/14/tibet-in-turmoil/
Anyone interested in Tibet issues can read this article and get a better sense of how things have been developed and how Tibet has been treated over the years, to be fair, through an American’s eye, who’d lived there and experienced the ups and downs of the society. Doing so will prevent ignorance from masking the truth. Come up your own conclusion after you read it. In the mean time, I have great sympathy toward those zealots who support independence of Tibet but only obtain their information from biased, if not worse, second-hand sources. By the way, on top of the facts described in this article, notorious “one-child” policy in the westerner’s eyes has never been enforced to the minority ethnic groups such as the Tibetans, so think about that, and think about how the old United States treated the native Indians.
My personal view toward the Tibet issue is, perhaps not in a well-suited comparison: Tibet, like a troubled child (due to ethnic difference from the rest), the mother (the country) is trying all she can, perhaps sometimes in a way that the child does not appreciate and take, to accommodate and please this child, and at the same time, to show to the neighbors (other countries) that she does all these with good intentions. However, things are not always working toward the direction that she had hoped, the neighbors keep picking on the mother: whenever they get a chance, if the child cries or fights, it is always the mothers fault. They would encourage the child to abandon the family, even this child heavily relies on the mother, both financially and mentally.
